Makes sense for them to support this given their scale. I wouldn't be surprised if GrapheneOS secures another big Android OEM vendor (after Motorola Mobility) and the user base of the OS quickly grows from its current 400k+ to millions.
Does anyone know anymore on that front? For months, I've regularly looked up whether there were any news, only to find nothing besides the original announcement. No ETA, no upcoming devices to be supported, heck, on the Graphene side, their own webpages make nary a mention. Would buy a Razr 70 Ultra + Clicks the second that is confirmed, but for something that was so publicly announced months ago, this seems very shaky...
At the time of writing, within ~12 months, in 2027, the 2027 Signature, Razr fold, and Razr flip will meet the hardware security requirements and should have official GrapheneOS support.
Motorola is currently porting GrapheneOS to their devices.
It requires a positive action from the application developer to include GrapheneOS's keys as well as Google's keys. So this is a deliberate positive step, rather than a default.
Don't get too excited, this still goes against the basic freedom to own the devices you've paid for.
Remote attestation is still there and only official builds of GrapheneOS are supported. While this is marginally better than being tied to a build from an advertising company, you're still out of luck if you want to build the OS yourself.
Roblox goes out of the way to explicitly support GrapheneOS. They permit GrapheneOS users to join servers enforcing remote attestation to verify the OS and app as a form of anti-cheat. They need to explicitly add the verified boot keys for each non-Google-certified OS. GrapheneOS is currently the only one they're supporting but they're making it clear that it's not at all exclusively available to it.
They're doing attestation checks to enforce having a Google certified device and OS. They followed our attestation compatibility guide to support GrapheneOS by permitting the verified boot keys for it and have said they're open to permitting other operating systems in the same way. It would be better if apps didn't do this but if they're going to do it then this is much better than only permitting a Google certified OS.
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 12.3 ms ] threadDoes anyone know anymore on that front? For months, I've regularly looked up whether there were any news, only to find nothing besides the original announcement. No ETA, no upcoming devices to be supported, heck, on the Graphene side, their own webpages make nary a mention. Would buy a Razr 70 Ultra + Clicks the second that is confirmed, but for something that was so publicly announced months ago, this seems very shaky...
Motorola is currently porting GrapheneOS to their devices.
Snowball effect (for both sides, software publishers and OS vendors).
While it sounds like it already works on GrapheneOS having a corporation come out and say they won't go out of their way to break it is quite unusual.
Awful.
That is the first time I see something like that!
Remote attestation is still there and only official builds of GrapheneOS are supported. While this is marginally better than being tied to a build from an advertising company, you're still out of luck if you want to build the OS yourself.
I'm yet to come across an Android app I can't run on GrapheneOS.. what exactly are they doing?